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I ... welcome back to Opinion Journal I'm well a federal court has ordered the state of California to reduce its prison population by ten thousand by the end of the year ... Governor Jerry Brown came up with a solution and a lot of people are shall we say up in arms over it ... here to talk with me about it is Bill Whalen a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution ... I don't Belle ... and Ariel ... the on the show ... I'd tell us a little bit about to fall Governor Brown has gone into this fix with his prison population apparently a federal court has indeed told them that by the end of the year ... they have to reduce the population by ten thousand prisoners ... that is correcting the end of year again so the governor's plan is to spend about three hundred and ten million dollars this year and four million dollars next year in ... California as my has about one point one billion answers or ... the money would go into putting prisoners extra states candy sales at its Thales ... facilities in Addie's California through the crisis ... you if they didn't and controlled by Democrats is that the berries into the prom is most powerful man in a state senators and interest over ... as if ... it ... was just a two hundred million dollars on drugs and medical care ... and is of course to postpone the release of prisoners for another three years ... is all ... it ... took to the Editor Dennis ... Brown is a very traditional politician telephone in terms of quantity she ... was incarcerated ... Steinberg is a different ... foreign Democrats who wants to go the more touchy feely side a tree ... well I got the impression that the ... the the the the summer the plaintiffs in the lawsuit of talk to Senator Steinberg and give the impression that up ... if the governor embrace that idea of the touchy feely drug rehabilitation mental health ... of that they might step back from their losses is that true ... the slow moving parts here no moving parts and as they have until sentiment of her team can figure something because the legislature insurance and ... um but this test wells if you well Sandberg Campbell R Graham was the biggest ... corporate money ... as leverage he can be to measures and Democratic senators want ... EPS ... by his line item veto the budget he contends of their money in the suit uses of the two will sit down and allowed to strike a deal the next two weeks ... of going out so well over my lap to what extent does this about the sentencing laws in California same issue that the Attorney General holder raised up on a week or so ago are there too many of too many of people serving time in California jails for minor drug offenses ... in the so called mandatory minimum loss to about half the drug offenders often it is right now off I knew that dance which I would wager is a brand is too ingrained Steinberg songs homes of residents the increases for next year so what you see is the governor of trying to change so one of those with older is proposed ... using penalties for marijuana probably one look it would be met this so-called ... returns a family investigator ... you think there are too many people was serving time in ... California prisons for those kinds of infractions ... or preserves your credit is no question that that it also has devoted time and time again for tougher laws in grocery people go next As Californians as various as local content companies do not want to be nibbled indicted by a low level offenses like burglaries and robberies ... getting a book or start sooner while so ... this is